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NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a branch of the Department of Energy, released the findings of the "Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study, (Summary) that said:
"wind energy could provide 20 to 30 percent of the eastern half of the country’s energy needs by 2024: here's how ... "
Rush Holt, the Democrat who represents the [...]
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A team of scientists led by Jay Kesner at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Michael Mauel at the Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science announced the "first significant results" from the Levitated Dipole Experiment, LDX. (Click here for the MIT news release).
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This is not exactly "news." Nuclear power plant construction is synonymous with cost overruns.(This is a "systems problem." Anytime you have a 10 to 15 year project in the $Billion range you will find several reinforcing feedback mechanisms that increase the cost and few, if any, balancing feedback mechanisms that keep the costs at a [...]
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Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post, a tabloid in the tradition of the London rags, on the subject of "Climate-Gate." At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails, who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western [...]
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Architecting a Clean, Secure, Sustainable, Non-Carbon and Non-Nuclear Energy Future
100 Gigawatts offshore wind. $300 Billion.
100 GW land based wind. $200 Billion.
50 GW solar. $325 Billion.
250 GW Clean, renewable, sustainable Energy. $825 Billion.
Save the World: Priceless
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Google asked "How will we read in 100 years?"Here's what I think.If we reinvent our economy to run on solar, geothermal, and kinetic energy, we will get our news and technical information electronically. We will still read classics on paper and mount on our walls images of loved ones and special places. If we don't [...]
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Back in 1931, John Maynard Keynes wrote "the economic problem may be solved within a hundred years. . . We must be smart, and ruthless." We certainly are ruthless. If we were smart, we would stop living off the principle and live off the interest - renewable energy.
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Coal plant with carbon sequestration plan to pipe tons of carbon dioxide 70 miles to be buried 1 mile under the sandstone floor of the Atlantic.
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Installed capacity to generate electricity from wind - Wind Power is doubling every 3 or 4 years. From 74 GW in at the end of 2006, to 120 GW in 12/08 to 322 in Dec. 2013.
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The Republican Road to Recovery, talks about clean energy alternatives, but focuses on coal, oil, oil shale, offshore drilling, and nuclear power.
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Tom Friedman writes that we may be able to harness nuclear fusion in 10 years. Until then we need to use solar and wind, and stop believing that we can clean up coal.
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"Because their fuel is free, wind turbines undercut traditional generators that burn coal, natural gas, and oil." And there are no radioactive fuels to mine, mill, ship, and manage.
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All Politics IS Local. People in The Bahamas, New Jersey, Europe and California have more or less the same solution - re-usable shopping bags - to the same problem - plastic bags in landfills. Another common problem is converting our electric grid to run on electricity generated from clean, sustainable systems. And again, the solutions are the same: Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Marine Current.
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I ran for school board earlier this year on a solar energy platform. I'd like to thank the Manalapan Republicans and the Marlboro Republicans for holding this event.
I'd like to talk about Nuclear Power and Coal and then Solar and Wind.
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In April of 2007, the Supreme Court ruled the federal Environmental Protection Agency must regulate carbon emissions unless it presents scientific proof that greenhouse gases do not contribute to global climate change. On Nov. 13, the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board ruled it would do so. We need alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear power, if [...]
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